Stockbridge, Michigan
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Services
For buyers, sellers, and homeowners keeping an eye on the place they already own. On new construction we also do pre-drywall inspections and 11-month builder’s warranty inspections. Our certified inspectors walk every major system in your Stockbridge home and tell you plainly what they found — then put it in a photo-rich digital report within 24 hours.
Following the InterNACHI Standards of Practice:
Included free with every home buyer inspection— and none of them require us to sell your information.
SatisfactionIf you are unhappy with your inspector on the day of the inspection, before you have seen your report, tell us and we will make it right — or you owe us nothing.
30-Day WarrantyA free 30-day Guard home warranty trial, negotiated for you with no obligation. Activate it whenever you are ready.
$100 OffThe buyer’s protection guarantee: if the first home we inspect for you does not make it to the closing table, for any reason, we take $100 off any further home buyer inspection within 30 days of the original.
Optional services at an additional cost — not part of a standard inspection. Tap one to see what it covers.
A camera down the main sewer line, watching its condition from the inside — roots, breaks, bellies and blockages no visual inspection can find. More about sewer scope inspections
The wood-destroying organism report VA buyers are typically asked to provide, on the federal NPMA-33 form. Carried out during the same visit. More about Veterans WDO inspections
Up to five air samples sent to an accredited laboratory, added to the same appointment rather than booked as a second visit. More about mold inspection and testing
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Offices, retail, multifamily and warehouses in Stockbridge and across Ingham County. Know what condition a building is in before you sign — or stay ahead of problems in the one you already own. Reports in 24 to 72 hours depending on size.
Following the CCPIA commercial standards:
Commonly added to a commercial inspection at additional cost.
Commercial laterals are longer, older and carry more. A camera is the only way to see the condition of the one you are buying. More about sewer scope inspections
Air samples to an accredited laboratory, which matters most in buildings that have sat empty or had a roof or plumbing leak. More about mold inspection and testing
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Add either to a Stockbridge home or commercial inspection, or book it on its own. We test and we never remediate, so there is nothing to sell you on the back of a result — the number you get is just the number.
Radon measured in house on a professional continuous monitor; mold samples to an accredited laboratory:
The other things worth testing while somebody is already there.
Carried out after remediation on the treated area and the areas next to it, to confirm what was found. More about mold inspection and testing
A damp basement can have several causes, and the buried sewer line is the one a visual inspection cannot check. A scope rules it in or out. More about sewer scope inspections
View a sample reportStockbridge housing stock
Stockbridge has roughly 662 housing units and about 60% of them are single-family detached. Age is the most useful single fact about a house before anyone has seen it. It narrows down what is worth checking first, and it is why two places of much the same size can need quite different inspections.
If the town has a defining decade it is the years before 1940, which accounts for 248 homes, around 37% of the housing stock.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $175,000.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Stockbridge home inspector checks these things early in a home of this age and then records what is genuinely there, which is often not what the era would suggest.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Stockbridge was built
63% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 4 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Stockbridge publishes a water quality report that says something most people never hear stated plainly: the village can look after its water and its pipes, but it cannot control what your own house is plumbed in.
That sentence is the reason this page exists. The village’s water comes from two groundwater wells, each over two hundred feet deep, and the state’s assessment rates the susceptibility of that source as low on a seven-tier scale. The reported lead figure is 1.0 parts per billion against an action level of 12. Those are good numbers.
But the report is careful to add that lead in drinking water comes primarily from materials in service lines and in home plumbing, that the supplier cannot control the variety of materials used inside a house, and that because levels vary over time, exposure is possible even when a tap sample does not detect lead on one particular day.
So the question shifts from the village to the building — which is exactly where an inspection operates. We report what the visible supply piping in a house is made of, and we flag galvanized pipe wherever we find it.
The housing here makes that a live question. About 248 of roughly 662 units predate 1940, and there is almost nothing from the 1990s or 2000s. Around 40% of the stock is something other than a detached house, which is a high share for a village.
Before you buy
Water
The village’s consumer confidence report is worth reading in full if you are buying here, and unusually among the ones we have looked at, it is legible and specific.
The supply comes from two groundwater wells, each over two hundred feet deep. The state assessed the source for susceptibility to contamination on a seven-tier scale running from very low to very high, taking account of geologic sensitivity, well construction, water chemistry and contamination sources, and rated Stockbridge’s source low. Nitrate was reported at 0.51 parts per million against a limit of 10, and sodium — which the report notes is not a regulated contaminant — at 11 parts per million.
The lead figure reported is 1.0 parts per billion, with a range of zero to 2.0, against an action level of 12. Again, good numbers.
Where the report earns its keep is in what it says next. Lead in drinking water comes primarily from materials used in service lines and in home plumbing. A water system is responsible for the quality of what it delivers and for removing lead pipes it owns, but it cannot control the variety of materials used in the plumbing inside your house. And because levels vary, a tap sample that detects nothing on one day does not prove there is nothing to find.
The report’s own practical advice includes using cold water for drinking, cooking and making baby formula, and it points out that boiling water does not remove lead.
To be clear about what we do and do not do: a home inspection is not a water test. We do not sample water and we do not test for lead. What we do is look at and report the visible supply piping — what it appears to be made of, where materials change, and where galvanized pipe survives. If that raises a question, testing is a separate and straightforward thing to arrange.
Old plumbing
With 248 units predating 1940 and another 91 from the 1950s, the plumbing in a typical Stockbridge house has been through several partial renewals rather than one clean replacement.
That pattern is where the interesting findings are. Original galvanized supply, where it survives, corrodes from the inside; the symptom is reduced flow and discolored water long before anything leaks, and it is often worst at the fixtures furthest from the main. We run fixtures to see how the system behaves under load rather than testing a single tap.
Material transitions are the other focus. Where old pipe meets new, the join is where corrosion and leaks concentrate, and mixed metals in contact accelerate it. We record where we can see those transitions and what appears to be on each side of them.
We also look at the shut-off arrangements — the main valve and any fixture stops — because on old plumbing they are often seized, boxed in behind finishes, or missing altogether, and you need them the day something fails.
And we check the water heater: its age, its temperature and pressure relief valve and discharge arrangement, its venting, and visible corrosion. On a house with a long history of partial plumbing work, the heater is often the newest thing in the system and the most informative about how carefully that work was done.
None of that is a lead test. It is the visible half of the question the village’s report raises, and it tells you whether the other half is worth pursuing.
The housing mix
At 60% single-family, Stockbridge has a higher share of duplexes, converted upper floors and small multi-unit buildings than most villages of its size — and in an old core that usually means mixed commercial and residential too.
Those buildings raise questions a standard single-family inspection does not. Where does one unit’s responsibility end and the next begin. Is the roof shared, and who has been maintaining it. Are the services separately metered, or does one supply feed several units. Is there a common stair, a shared basement, a shared attic void.
On the plumbing question above, shared supply matters twice over: several units drawing on one original service will show flow problems sooner than a single household would, and a partial internal renewal in one unit tells you nothing about the others.
Access is the practical constraint. We cannot inspect what we cannot get into, so entry to the units, the common areas and any shared plant needs arranging in advance. Where access is refused or impossible on the day we say so plainly in the report rather than quietly leaving a gap.
Where a building is genuinely commercial or mixed use, commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard are the right product rather than a residential inspection stretched to fit. Tell us what the building actually is and we will tell you honestly which one you need. A buyer’s inspection on a straightforward house here is exactly what you would expect.
Permits
The village runs a public works department, a police department and a cemetery, and publishes its meetings and minutes alongside the water quality report.
What we could not establish from published sources is who issues building permits here and who performs the inspections. There is no building department page. We are not going to guess at a county authority or a contracted inspector, because across the communities we cover we have seen at least half a dozen arrangements and they behave very differently in practice.
So make it a call before you plan any work: who issues a permit, who inspects it, how much notice they need, and where the permit history for this address is held.
Ask for that history specifically. On a village where nearly four houses in ten predate 1940, eighty years of alterations have accumulated, and the gap between what was permitted and what is physically present is a gap the buyer inherits.
A home inspection is not a code inspection or a permit search. What it does is establish what is physically there and in what condition, and flag work that looks as though it was done without the benefit of a permit — which gives you something specific to ask about rather than a general inquiry.
The buried line
Everything above concerns water coming in. The line taking waste water out is a separate question, it belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
Under a pre-1940 house it is often the oldest untouched component on the whole property. We will not name a material from a build year, because nothing published establishes what Stockbridge lines are generally made of, and a guess in a report is worse than no statement at all.
A sewer camera inspection records what is actually in there: roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and a clear run where they do not. In an old platted village with mature street trees, roots are the common finding and they give no warning until the day the drains back up.
On a multi-unit building there is more reason to look, not less. Several units sharing one drain line put far more through it than a single household would, and a partial blockage that one family might live with for months announces itself quickly in a building with four kitchens on it.
A camera inspection is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately, and we deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day. Radon testing and mold inspection and testing can be added to the same visit. You can read what our clients say, browse answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Stockbridge.
Local information from Village of Stockbridge — 2025 Consumer Confidence Report (water quality) · Village of Stockbridge — 2025 water quality report (PDF) · Village of Stockbridge — Department of Public Works · Village of Stockbridge — village website. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Ingham County
Zone 2 is the middle EPA category — the predicted average indoor level across the county sits between 2 and 4 pCi/L.
We place a continuous monitor for 48 hours and read the result on site — no mail-in kit, no lab wait. How radon testing works · Ingham County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Stockbridge home inspector.
Family owned since 2009, more than 16,000 inspections completed and over 2,000 five-star reviews across Michigan. We also handle home buyer inspections, commercial building inspections, mold testing and radon testing.
We do not sell mold remediation or radon mitigation, so there is nothing to gain from a result that comes back bad. The number you get is just the number.
Radon, mold, sewer scope and wood-destroying organism inspections go on the same appointment as the home inspection rather than costing you a second morning.
Most people do, and it is the most useful hour of the whole purchase. Ask anything while we are standing in front of it.
InterNACHI and CCPIA certified, with four Certified Master Inspectors and National Home Inspector Examination passes on the team — none of which Michigan requires. The standards we inspect to are published and you can hold the work against them.
Including weekends, because inspection windows sit on closing dates and closing dates do not care what day it is.
Reviews
I recently hired Trademark for a full home inspection on a new purchase, including sewer scope and radon testing. It was a phenomenal experience from beginning to end. Our inspector, Mitch, did a fantastic job explaining all the findings, and the digital report with photos and videos was superb. Would definitely recommend without hesitation.
Salina HamiltonOak Park, MIWe had Mitch inspect our prospective house and he was amazing. He was thorough, patient to answer my questions and provide feedback on what areas he would recommend having a follow up expert and why. The office was responsive and I was able to book multiple services to be done in the same visit (inspection, radon test, sewer scope).
Chris PlaweckiOak Park, MIThis is one of the finest companies I have come across - that means serious customer service and professionalism. Justin was the inspector and he was very thorough yet very kind to answers all the questions that came in my mind during inspection. He took enough time, no rush, and a very detailed inspection was conducted. Extremely competitive pricing and timing from the company. 100% recommend to anyone looking for any kind of property inspection!!
Chirag R MiyaniMichiganWhat happens
Questions
Two groundwater wells, each over two hundred feet deep. The state assessed the source for susceptibility to contamination on a seven-tier scale and rated it low.
It reports 1.0 parts per billion against an action level of 12, with a range of zero to 2.0. It also notes that lead comes primarily from materials in service lines and home plumbing, and that levels vary over time.
Because the report says plainly that the supplier cannot control the variety of materials used in the plumbing inside your home. That part is the owner’s to identify, and it is where an inspection can help.
No. We do not sample water and we do not test for lead. We look at and report the visible supply piping — what it appears to be made of, where materials change, and where galvanized pipe survives. Testing is a separate thing to arrange.
It corrodes from the inside, so the symptom is reduced flow and discolored water long before anything leaks, and it is often worst at the fixtures furthest from the main. We run fixtures under load rather than testing one tap.
Yes, and here it comes up often — around 40% of the housing stock is not a detached house. Tell us what the building actually is when you book so we can scope it and arrange access to units and common areas.
We could not establish it from published sources — there is no building department page. Ask the village before planning work, and we would rather say that than guess.
On a village where nearly four houses in ten predate 1940, yes. The drain line is often the oldest untouched component on the property, and on a multi-unit building several households share it. A camera inspection goes on the same visit.
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